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Residents fear their postal service could get worse, as opening hours are slashed at Royal Mail customer service points. The firm has taken the measure at approximately half of its sites in Kent, including Tannery Lane sorting office and delivery point in Ashford, citing changes in customer behaviour. Royal Mail …

The German has taken home in excess of £3m over the last two years, more than double the £1.3m paid to outgoing Royal Mail chief Simon Thompson over the same period. The task facing Seidenberg cannot be underestimated. One of the worst campaigns of industrial action in a generation drew …

Royal Mail has won a five-year contract for the collection and delivery of passports and supporting documents including UK Visas and Immigration … Source link

Royal Mail workers have overwhelmingly accepted a deal which ends their long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions. Source link

An Indian-origin employee of UK’s Royal Mail who had claimed that she was bullied by her boss has won a compensation of £2.4 million (₹25 crore). Kam Jhuti had alleged that her boss intimidated and harassed her after she raised concerns that a colleague secured their bonus illegitimately. This is …

Mohsin Issa, co-owner of Asda said;  “We have engaged fulsomely and openly with the Business and Trade Select Committee on grocery and fuel price inflation. We are disappointed to hear that the committee feels there are discrepancies in our evidence and have provided them with a detailed response to their …

The planned cap on stamp prices is the latest blow to Royal Mail, which is trying to shift its focus to parcels as demand for letters continues to decline. Earlier this month, the Government blocked the company’s plans to axe Saturday letter deliveries. The move threatens to drive the price …

A former shop could be brought back into use as a Post Office, which has long been a staple of Ipswich’s high street, searches for a new home. Proposals have been drafted to move the Carr Street office into the former Jessops in Butter Market. The premises has been empty …

A sub-postmaster at a village post office under threat of closure has started a petition to reverse a decision made by Royal Mail. Mailworkers will be relocated from Dersingham Post Office in August and relocated to the sorting office in Lynn and the petition currently has a combined total online …

The problem is that the USO can only be scrapped with Parliament’s say-so and it is refusing to play ball, business minister Kevin Hollinrake has announced. “As you will be aware, we currently have no plans to change the minimum requirements of the universal postal service,” he said in a …